Ransomware that uses strong cryptography to hold entire hard drives’ worth of data hostage keeps getting nastier, as criminals attempt to find new ways to extort more people into paying increasingly hefty ransoms to recover their files. Link: Booming crypto ransomware industry employs new tricks to befuddle victims
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Apple devices are generally considered by security experts to be safe, and rather difficult to hack. But difficult doesn’t mean impossible. Over the weekend someone proved just how possible it is to hack at least one of these devices, the iPhone. Link: Hackers claim $1 million bounty after remotely jailbreaking iPhones
Vulnerability management plays an important part in establishing a secured network. It includes identifying, analyzing and rectifying the flaws that exist in a system for a better working condition. These flaws in a network could be used by an attacker to launch an attack. Link: Vulnerability Management
Analysis How do you protect people’s privacy when you have big databases of personal records you want to share? Link: How do you anonymize personal databases and protect people’s privacy – over to you, NIST
